binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority. Size: 8 ½ x 6 in. (21.59 x 15.24 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and aquatint
binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority. Size: 8 ½ x 6 in. (21.59 x 15.24 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and aquatint
Plate 33, etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin in dark brown ink, first edition; matted with P.84.6. Size: 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (18.42 x 12.07 cm) (image) Medium: Etching and aquatint
Baltasar Carlos, Prince of Spain and Son of Philip IV, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 18th-19th century,Harvard Art Museums: Prints
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund Size: sheet: 59.4 x 41.6 cm (23 3/8 x 16 3/8 in.) plate: 34.8 x 22 cm (13 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.) Medium: Etching on cream antique laid paper
Goya’s bold watercolor is very far from the emphasis on pure line of the restrained Classicism that characterizes many of the works from this period. Goya applied his washes with an abandon that verged on the abstract. Indeed, it can be difficult to separate the knot of individual figures, three of them carrying a fourth, in a scene that recalls images of the Deposition of Christ. Probably produced during the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleonic France (1808–14), Goya’s drawing unflinchingly treats the senseless violence and social chaos that defined the period. Clarence Buckingham Collection Size: 202 x 141 mm Medium: Brush with brown ink and brown and gray wash over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority. Size: 8 ½ x 6 in. (21.59 x 15.24 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and aquatint
binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority. Size: 8 ½ x 6 in. (21.59 x 15.24 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and aquatint
standing woman at center in a dark dress; man, holding his hat in his PR hand, looks very closely at woman’s face with a small lens in his PL hand; two seated women in background In 1793, an illness left Spanish court painter, Francisco Goya profoundly deaf, a condition that may have liberated him to explore unconventional subjects in his art. A few years later, he published Los Caprichos, a set of 80 etchings and aquatints that delved into prostitution, superstition, religious exploitation, abuse of power, witchcraft, and other follies of Spanish society. Though Goya took care to keep his imagery somewhat inscrutable, avoiding specific reference to individuals, the prints proved so inflammatory that they were withdrawn from sale within fifteen days. This print refers to the custom of arranged marriages in Spain. Size: 7 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. (19.69 x 14.92 cm) (plate) 11 ¼ x 7 13/16 in. (28.58 x 19.84 cm) (sheet) Medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint